Former Golden Eagle and OVC three-point specialist Allison Clark returned to her alma mater prior to the 2012-13 season to serve as an assistant coach. Hired by former head coach Jim Davis, she is now working on Kim Rosamond's coaching staff. She focuses heavily on recruiting, as well as working with the guards on the court, and is primarily responsible for acting as a liaison for the players and academics.

Before her return to Tech, the native of Shelbyville, Tenn., gained 14 years of coaching experience at a variety of levels.

Clark spent two seasons coaching at her high school alma mater, Shelbyville Central High School. Prior to that she spent five seasons (2005-2010) coaching at Middle Tennessee State under Rick Insell, her former high school coach.

Over the course of those five seasons, Clark helped guide the Lady Raiders to five Sun Belt Conference Tournament Championship titles, four appearances in the NCAA tournament and three regular-season titles. She coached multiple players to numerous Sun Belt Conference awards, including two Sun Belt Players of the Year, two SBC Defensive Players of the Year, and two SBC Tournament Most Outstanding Players, as well as eight All-Sun Belt performers.

She was also part of the staff the led MTSU back into the national spotlight, when the team rose to as high as No. 16 in the 2006-07 season in both the Associated Press and USA Today polls after winning 27 games in a row. This squad claimed the program's second consecutive SBC regular season crown after posting a perfect 18-0 record.

An accomplished recruiter, Clark helped Middle Tennessee claim a Top 10 ranked recruiting class in 2006, which included both the Tennessee and Kentucky Gatorade Players of the Year, and a top-25 ranked class in 2009. She helped to develop four All-Americans at MTSU, three of whom continued on to play professional basketball in the WNBA.

During her coaching career at MTSU, the program went 125-39 overall and 76-10 in Sun Belt Conference action. The Lady Raiders were 65-7 on their home floor and 42-1 at home in conference play.

Prior to her stint at MTSU, Clark was a graduate assistant at the University of Arkansas under Susie Gardner and earned her master's degree in Sports Management. She coached one season at Tech in 2002 before making the move to the SEC program in Fayetteville.

As a student-athlete, Clark played her freshman season at the University of North Texas, earning Big West Conference All-Freshman honors and setting the freshman record for 3-pointers in a season.

She then transferred to Tennessee Tech, where she was a three-year letterwinner for coach Bill Worrell. After sitting out the 1998-99 season due to NCAA regulations, Clark helped Tech win or share the regular season OVC championship all four years she was in Cookeville.

Clark was a first-team All-OVC selection as a junior and was named to the OVC All-Tournament team as a sophomore and junior. A member of the program's NCAA Tournament Team in 2000, she set the single-season and career marks for 3-pointers and was given the Ed Steitz Award as the Best 3-point Shooter in the Nation by the National Basketball Hall of Fame. Clark also made OVC Academic Honor Roll two times during her career, and landed on Tech's Athletic Director's honor roll all eight semesters of her career.

During her time at Tech, Clark led her team in accuracy from behind the arc in all three seasons that she lettered under Worrell. She tallied a percentage of .406 from downtown while making 225 three-pointers during her career.

In high school, Clark was an All-American for Insell at Shelbyville Central. She was a member of the 1995 state championship team and was named Midstate Player of the Year by the Tennessean as a senior. Shelbyville won three straight District and Region titles and finished runner-up at the state tournament during Clark's senior year.

She was also a member of an AAU national championship team, Shelbyville SportShop, in 1996 and served as the head coach of the Tennessee Ladies AAU squad in 1999.

Always the dedicated professional, Clark was a keynote speaker at the Women's Professional Luncheon in Shelbyville in 2009 and a Nike WBCA Assistant Coaches' Round Table presenter in San Antonio in 2010. She graduated from TTU in 2002 with her bachelor's degree in health and physical education.

In 2014, Clark published her first book, "Off the Back of the Rim: Uplifting Thoughts to Help You Rebound from the Bricks of Life." It is an effective positive guide for life, whether read by young or old, and hits hard in directing its readers toward a more effective and fulfilling life with Christ as the Ultimate Coach.

Coach Clark also publishes her own blog, which can be found here:Offthebackoftherim.blogspot.com. Clark is also an avid social media user and can be followed on Twitter: @Longrangeboma, Facebook: Allison Clark, and Instagram: Longrangeboma.